Hair loss, need an advice

[evasofi]

Morning,

I had high thyroid and my endo prescribed clatrimazole. I'm taking it 3 weeks already with 20mg a day. In last couple of days I'm starting to loss lots of amount of hair. I know the rule of 50-100 hair a day is normal, it is definitely more than that.

My latest blood test shows that antibodies are normal, vitamin d is ok and red blood cells are slightly low from norm.

Anyone who has experience with carbimazole and had a hair loss, can you please share your experience. Will it stop, will it be recovered? Anything I can do to prevent it?

Thanks

Lilit

[LouiseRoberts]

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[twinkiegal]

I've had Graves disease for years and have refused to get RAI or a TT just because I haven't had horrible symptoms, I didn't want to start a whole new set of problems with being hypothyroid, and I have kept it well controlled using pills. I'm in America and the first thing they put me on was Methimazole (which is like the UK carbimazole), and I got hives. Then I was put on propylthiouracil (PTU). After being on it for probably a year and a half, my hair started falling out. I had a very good physician who said it was most likely because of the PTU. I was basically in remission so he said let's take you off it and see what happens. Came off it, 3 months later the hair loss stopped. About 2 years after that my Graves started acting up again and I started PTU and within about 3 months, hair started falling out. Went off it and 3 months later, hair fall stopped. Spent about a year trying natural therapies which actually worked pretty well. I was virtually symptom free but my labs were still a bit high. Have a new endo and she wanted me to try methimazole again at a very low dose just to see if we could get my levels down. Within about 2 weeks of being on it, my hair started falling out. Which completely freaked me out because I now have pretty thin hair because of the other falling out episodes. I actually looked at wigs. Went back to all my usual websites to look for any kind of help and somehow came across certain hair vitamins that were on Amazon. They had tons of positive reviews and a bunch of reviews from people who were losing hair because of medication. Thought what the heck, I'll give it a try. Got them, and have been on them 3 weeks. When I first started taking them I was losing probably 125 hairs taking a shower and drying my hair. After 2 weeks, I was losing about 80. Today I counted 60. So it must be working! And I know I sound like a salesman and it seems too good to be true but it makes sense, thyroid disease depletes all our vitamins so of course our hair is unnurished to begin with. Then we start a medication that can put more stress on it and it falls out. I know I can't put a brand name on here but if you want to PM me I'll tell you. I'm not associated with them in any way, I just promised myself that if it worked for me, I would tell other people.